The Virtues and Versatility of Vinegar
Vinegar isn't just for salad dressing anymore...it is a relatively safe and versatile tool when used in organic gardening. Here are some tips, as well as a bit of valuable background. So, in the midst of gardening in 102° heat recently, I was ... [... more]
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Luigi Zingales
How Open Financial Markets Challenge the Establishment and Spread Prosperity to Rich and Poor Alike Capitalism's biggest problem is the executive in pinstripes who extols the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to ... [... more]
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Roya Hakakian
Journey from the Land of No A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran "We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now ... [... more]
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Raghuram Rajan
How Open Financial Markets Challenge the Establishment and Spread Prosperity to Rich and Poor Alike Capitalism's biggest problem is the executive in pinstripes who extols the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to ... [... more]
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Craig Wilson
In 1996, Craig Wilson began writing a column for USA Today called "The Final Word." In it, he extolled the virtues of the true pleasures in life-clotheslines, freshly cut firewood, sweet corn, and Adirondack chairs-and looked back on his ... [... more]
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Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
 From Amazon.com: William Lee Miller's Lincoln's Virtues is less an "event" chronology than the tracing of the moral and ethical core of Abraham Lincoln's beliefs, what Miller calls the man's "unintended preparation for greatness." [... more]
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Virtues and Vices: and other essays in moral philosophy
Must-Read Papers for Meta-Ethicists: This is a fabulous collection of papers. It covers the most important papers from Foot's in the period from the 50s to the 70s, and it includes several classics of twentieth-century meta-ethics (e.g. "Moral [... more]
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Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets
From Amazon.com: Everything For Sale is an erudite reprieve from the deluge of books written in praise of free markets. Robert Kuttner fires back with a book that documents relevant, real-world examples of market failure and makes the case for [... more]
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Christmas Botany Series- Rosemary, Herb of Remembrance
Rosemary has long been associated with Christmas. Come explore some of the lore of this ancient herb. Plants are a major source of the symbolism we use to celebrate our winter holiday seasons. Plants provide us with an unlimited supply of virtues ... [... more]
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Virtues for Ordinary Christians
virtue: At a time when principles animate so much moral talk in professional life, Virtues for Ordinary Christians offers virtue as the starting point for doing moral reflection and for giving moral advice. When most ethicists are suggesting that the [... more]
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The Virtues of Aging
From Amazon.com: When Jimmy Carter left the White House in 1981, he and his wife, Rosalynn, had to face the same questions many elder Americans encounter when retirement approaches: "How could we accommodate the unpleasant circumstances that had [... more]
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Family Virtues Guide
From Amazon.com: When you witness a small child haul off and smack another child unprovoked, the theory of innate morality seems to lose all validity. Moral education has always been the domain of religion, and Linda Kavelin Popov has culled 52 universal [... more]
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